We performed a comparison between RightScale Cloud Management Platform, vCenter Orchestrator, and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage."
"Because of the central management, the scripting engine and workflow engine are integrated with VMware without any burden to integrate different products."
"Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful."
"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."
"The most valuable feature for us is the performance stability of vCenter Orchestrator, especially in complex situations, making it excellent for managing virtual machines."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."
"Our speed of provisioning has improved. We used to build systems manually, which would take four hours or a day. Nowadays we're able to spin something up off a template... and it takes about 20 minutes."
"VMware Aria Automation is a very scalable solution because it integrates well with a couple of leading products in the industry. For products that are not already integrated, there are plugins or adapters that can be used with customization."
"The most valuable features are the Catalog View and the access control business group. Access provisioning is probably the main use case for us, so we can separate access to different Catalog items among the different business groups and have that tied back to our AD LDAP systems."
"Another valuable feature is the flexible user interface. They can manage all of the servers, the full lifecycle of VMs, on one screen."
"If you do a deployment for a proof of concept, it is simple."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Aria Automation is the versatile automation and deployments."
"Instead of deploying a VM from a template and going through the process of configuring that VM, with vRA we're able to click once and it does everything: grabs an IP, joins it to the domain, loads whatever configuration agents are needed. It does all of that without manual intervention."
"The solution is intuitive and user-friendly. E.g., you have less number of logins."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."
"The snapshot technology of VMware is not good compared to other solutions in the market, like Nutanix."
"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution. The interface also needs improvement, it should be simplified."
"It would be nice in the next release if they added in tool tips. Whether you're putting it together, adding a blueprint, or you're making a change in the system, highlighting or selecting something and having it tell you what it does or what it will do would be nice. Because it's such a complex system, it's hard to work with unless you've been using it for years to know what everything is doing."
"It is not super-intuitive. It does require some skills to understand how to use it. I had no problem, but I had spent a lot of time already learning this product ahead of moving it to an operational status. But as we did so, we had a hard time bringing some people from other groups into the fold, to script and work against this environment. So, the ability to build workflows within that automation needs to be streamlined."
"Multitenancy management is a little bit difficult to do, so it is an area that can be improved."
"It has a learning curve."
"The stability is 95 percent. There are some situations where it gets a little bit clumsy. When it gets really big, when you're dealing with a very large deployment, it can be a little bit difficult, but it's better than nothing. It does a significant job, given what it's tasked to do."
"My impression of its stability is "middle of the road." We've had some issues where it seems to be a little bit sensitive, where deployments fail and we don't really know a specific reason why. We'll dig through logs and try and figure out what's going on, but it's not always apparent as to why it failed. And you can kick it off again and it'll succeed. So stability could be better."
"The solution could be lighter. As an administrator, I would like to simplify the number of services I need to deploy. They took a significant step in that direction by removing all the Windows dependencies that we had in the past, but there are still a lot of services consuming resources."
"vRO can get out of sync with vRA. We've run into every once in a while."
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